A great city of the Manmarch, home to 20,000 souls (IV/215). It is plagued by ‘…religious schisms, racial tensions, unscrupulous greed and warring factions with proud leaders’ (III/420). The city lies amongst rich farmlands and meadows in which grow various plants used tom make colourful dyes. Irsmuncast is famous throughout the Manmarch for its weaving, dyeing, carpets, pavilions and tapestry-making. It is a ‘…fair-seeming city’, its walls made of a dull red stone with towers at fifty foot intervals along the battlements. The citizens are of many types (III/236).